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APPLICATION FILED mm3 00000 3.

No. vnv.

Patented February 2, 1904.

. UNITED-STATES PATENT lOFFICE-.

HERMAN H. BECKMAN, `OF DES MOINES,IOWA, ASSIGNOR 'IO BECKMAN BROTHERS, OF DES-MOINES, IOWA, A FIRM. i

BAND-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming` part of 'Letters Patent No. `751,370, dated February 2, 1904.

'Applicationiiled MarchfBO, 1903.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMAN H. BECKMAN, ka citizen ofthe United States of America, and a resident ofv Des Moines, Polk county, Iowa, have invented a new and useful Band-.Fastening, of which the following isa specification. The object of this invention is to'provide improved means for connecting end portions of aI hoop or band employed on wooden `containing vessels andthe like, whereby said end portions of the hoop or band may be approximated to each other, overlapped, or separated, as required, to tighten f a band or hoop on a vessel or 'slacken the same for adjustment or removal. i 1

l My invention consists in the combination of l heads recessed to receive end portions of a hoop or band, means for connecting said heads,

' and transverse wedges mounted in said heads and arranged to kink or ofset the end portions of the band therein, whereby connection is established and maintained between the heads and band.

My invention consists, further,y inthe construction, arrangement,l and combination of elements hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in whichn Figure 1 isan'elevation or face view illustrating the application of my improved bandfastening to end portions of a band.` ,Fig 2 is a horizontal sectional View illustrating my improved fastening applied to end portions of a'band and mounted on a segment of a wooden containing vessel. `Fig. 3`is a perspective of one of the heads detached from the other parts. Figs. 4 and 5 are detail views of the transverse wedge employed in my device. A

In the construction of the'device as shown the numerals 10 11 designate heads identical in construction and arranged in opposition to each other. Each of the heads l0 11 is recessed or formed hollow, and the bottom plate thereof is imperforateand continuous from end to end of the device. Each head is open at its ends, and the outer wall thereof is arched from the bottom plate toaccommodatek and provide for the passage through the heads of a strainingbolt 12. Transverse notches 13 14 are formed seria No. 150,187. (No man.)

in the central portionsof the'sides of the heads at the juncture of the base-plate and arched wall,.and the innermost walls of said notchesv -are flush with the outer face ofthe base-plate.

. The arched forward wall of each head is set inplate. End portions 17 18 ofla band'are passed ,through the heads 10 11 between the outer faces of the base-plates and the shoulders 15 16, and wedges 19 2O are vdriven through thev notches 13 14 between the'end portions ofthe band and said outer faces of the base-plates.` The wedges 19 .20 are of identical construcy tion and tapered throughout their lengths, the thinner endportion of each wedge being further tapered or beveled more abruptly than the body portions thereof in order that either wedge may be started to its seat inthe head easily. The seating of the wedges in and transversely of the central portions of .the heads has theeffect ofkinking, iieXing, or offsetting the end portions of the band within the heads, thus establishing a rm and stable conw nection between said band and the heads and preventing slipping of the heads on the band. Each end portion of Ithe straining-bolt 12 is threaded, and nuts 21 22 are mounted thereon` and engage the eXtreme outer end portions of the'heads. Screwing of the nuts 21 22-on the .end portions of the straining-bolt12 has the effect of moving the heads 1() 11 toward each other, and since said heads are connected rigidly (by the transverse wedges-19 20) to the ends of the band any approach of the heads to each other sets up a corresponding contractifn of the band on the wooden containing vesse 23.

It will be noted that the wedges are positioned transversely of the heads and band and flex the band Within the heads independent of any straining of the bolt 12 thus rigidly yet removably connecting the heads to the band independent of the straining-bolt.

- The holes 24 are provided inthe wedges for the reception of cord or'wire for fastening the wedgestotheother parts in transportation or storage.

I claim as my inventionl. As an improved article of manufacture, a band-fastening comprising the heads recessed for the passage therethrough of band ends and also notched transversely intermediate of their ends, wedges mounted transversely of said heads and through said notches, said wedges located between the base-plates of the heads and the band ends, and a straining-bolt connecting said heads independent of the wedges.

2. As an improved article of manufacture,

a band-fastening' comprising the heads lecessed for the passage therethrough of band ends, vwedges separate from and mounted transversely of the heads, whereby the band ends are eXed within the heads, and a straining-bolt connecting` said heads.

Signed by me at Des Moines, Iowa, this 12th day of March, 1903.

HERMAN H. BECKMAN.

Witnesses:

C. BECKMAN, S. C. SWEET. 

